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/SCREAMS IN LIBRARY & INFORMATION LITERACY
WHAT HAVE WE *BEEN* SAYING?!?!
The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) has been gutted in Trump's proposed 2027 budget. It's not Groundhog Day. It's just happening again.
Here's what you need to know and what you can do to take action right now.
bookriot.com/2027-imls-bu...
If you've ever done historical newspaper research, you understand how vital AP was to get non-local news out. We already lost UPA a couple decades ago, and now this. The harder it gets for people to access free non-local press the more susceptible we will be to propaganda and fake news.
...I just got that sending Artemis to orbit Luna was the joke all along. Oh my god.
Happiest day from the West coast 🎊 you are so loved, girl & so grateful you were born
Also, if you are the proud owner of the first issue of the Anime Herald Magazine AND attending Anime Boston, you should bring it.
It would be pretty neat if it got signed after our panel, right? Right?!
First trailer for the new "Magic Knight Rayearth" anime series, based on the manga by CLAMP.
Coming in October 2026.
>> www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bgpe...
I just asked Outlook out loud why it was being such a bitch and so, I think it's time for me to turn off my laptop now.
I know you get a lot of "call your representatives" requests, but this is a big one.
Not only does this violate the understanding in the U.S. that library decisions rest at the local level, but it specifically targets books by, about, and for trans people.
That's discrimination, plain and simple.
Tifa Lockhart 👊
#ff7 #finalfantasyvii
Giving myself this reminder as I (should) prep for my summer classes soon 🤞🏻
Beautiful color illustration book cover, details at this URL: https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781517920012/the-luminous-fairies-and-mothra/
Our local academic publishing house has a treat for everyone:
"The story that hatched Mothra—available in English for the first time, translated by Jeffrey Angles, who wrote an afterword about the novella’s cultural context, the unusual story of its composition, and the development of the 1961 film"
It is literally on YouTube in the original Japanese audio with English subtitles
www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9JO...
can't "love libraries" and not fight for them to be fully funded.
My colleagues at ACRLog wrote short tributes to the life and work of Fobazi Ettarh @fobettarh.bsky.social. I wrote about her work on disability, which I think deserves more recognition. acrlog.org/2026/03/04/t...
Thanks @ezerrenner.bsky.social for coordinating. #CripLib #VocationalAwe
Two Documentaries That Explain This Moment in Libraries and Book Censorship
The Librarians and An American Pastoral together are a robust, if imperfect, means of understanding this censorship moment.
buttondown.com/wellsourced/...
banner with blue text on white. reads "stop killing people you fucking twats."
It is as bad as it sounds, and freedom to read folks have been anticipating this now for years.
Make your phone calls. Send your emails.
If you're stunned/enraged by the latest anti-trans cruelty in Kansas and want to help people directly, this 🧵 has options (highly recommend finding one small thing to do rather than/in addition to ragescrolling & howling into the void)
Y E S !!!! PHYSICAL MEDIA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I love this so much 💜
Del Taco's chicken soft taco. It got me through undergrad depression & I will never let it go.
I started this morning screaming into a pillow and quite possibly concerning my neighbors, just in case anyone wants to know where my stress levels are at 🙃
I am begging the last few folks I know using Substack to leave already.
Already should've found a new platform given the Nazi stuff; gambling nonsense is just the latest bad thing.
